April 3, 2017

The page to sign in to your UCSC Google Account will look a little different beginning Wednesday, April 5. Google has created a brand new unified design for its sign in page that will have the same look and feel on all devices you use.

March 9, 2017

Mozilla Corporation has announced that it has ended support for browser plugins in its latest Firefox 52 version release in order to ensure better browser performance, security and improved user experience.

September 19, 2016

August 17, 2016

On August 15, Google released Inbox for Google Apps for Education. This new email application provides enhanced features for managing your email Inbox and mobile use. The UCSC Google Service team evaluated the service and enable it for our campus on August 19.

February 8, 2016

If you have shared Google Drive files and documents with someone who has already left UCSC, will be retiring or graduating, or simply changing positions and leaving your department, make sure to change your sharing settings if you no longer want that person to have access to your documents in Google Drive.

January 8, 2016

Knowing your schedule at all times is vital when reading and composing emails. Obviously, you can open up your Google Calendar in another tab and check what events are on the horizon before responding, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could see this information right in Gmail? Now you can!

November 5, 2015

Ever deleted a calendar event by mistake and wanted to get it back? Now you can. Google has added Trash functionality to Google Calendar, providing an easy way for you to view, permanently delete, or restore individual and recurring deleted calendar events.

October 29, 2015

These tips allow you to maintain your privacy while also making full use of Google Apps collaborative capabilities. Share individual tabs of a Google Sheet or retract an email you mistakenly sent the night before, these are Google Gooru's four favorite ways to increase your privacy in Google Apps.

September 8, 2015

There are plenty of reasons why you may want to transfer ownership in Google Docs. If you are the owner, you might want to pass along responsibility of a project to someone else, especially if you are leaving UCSC. This will ensure that documents will remain accessible once your UCSC account is closed.

June 19, 2015

Everyone organizes their Google Drive differently. Shockingly, many Google Apps users don’t organize them at all. By using a few best practices, there is a system for making Google Drive much more organized and easier to navigate.

April 27, 2015

April 10, 2015

Google is famous for their search engine, so much so "Google it" is now embedded into our vocabulary to mean to search for something in general. But often I hear people say, "I can't find anything in Google Drive or Gmail". Here's how to use Google's powerful search engine in Drive and Gmail:

April 6, 2015

Google is launching a new redesigned Google Drive on April 7. They announced this change in July when you had the option at that time to switch over to the new design. Here's a recap of what's changing:

January 9, 2015

November 24, 2014

Effective immediately, all UCSC Google Apps accounts now have an unlimited amount of storage! Store as many Google Drive files, Gmail messages, and Google+ photos as you need. Google Drive also supports individual files up to 5TB (Terabyte) in size.As a reminder, never send or store highly sensitive information such as PII or other restricted data in Google. If you must, encrypt it first. More Information